Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Thu, 2016-05-12 09:00
Loosh is the son of Joby and Louvinia, the husband of Philadelphy, and the uncle of Ringo. Loosh is the only African-American on the Sartoris plantation who openly desires the freedom for slaves offered by the Yankees (and one of the few rebellious blacks in the whole of the Yoknapatawpha canon). He does not feel any allegiance to the Sartoris family, and tells Union troops where to find the silver that Granny tried to hide.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Thu, 2016-05-12 08:48
Bayard Sartoris is the narrator of The Unvanquished. The novel's seven stories add up to a Bildungsroman of sorts, describing how he comes of age during the fall of the Old South and the years of Reconstruction. At the beginning he is twelve, although he is telling the story retrospectively some years later. The son of a prominent planter who becomes a Colonel in the Confederate army, Bayard looks up to and admires his father. At the narrative's beginning, the hardships and realities of the Civil War have not reached him at home, where his Granny takes care of him.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-12 07:47
"Coon bridge" in Go Down, Moses crosses the Tallahatchie River downstream from the site of Old Ben's death (231). It's not easy to see what the label refers to. At the same spot in the earlier story "Lion" is something called a "log drift." But whether "Coon bridge" is a tree that fell across the river, a literal 'logjam' in the river, or a rude structure over the river made of logs fixed together somehow, or something else - this can't be decided.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-12 07:45
One of the locations mentioned in "Lion" is something called "a log drift" across the Tallahatchie River; it's "three miles down" (i.e. downstream) from the spot where Old Ben swims across the river and a place where some of the hunters cross over on foot to try to join the chase (194). It isn't described, but it seems that a "log drift" is a kind of natural bridge across the river. The most likely such 'bridge' would be a tree that fell on one bank that was tall enough to reach the other side, but in that case why would Faulkner use the word 'drift'?
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-12 07:40
This marks the spot where the hunt for Old Ben crosses the river in both "Lion" and Go Down, Moses. In the short story Ad and Boon swim across it in pursuit, but because the only boat the hunters have is "just a [two-person] duck boat" (194), most of the other men turn back to camp. In the novel "that damn boat!" is on the other side of the river, so Ike and Boon swim across on the mule, and Lion brings Old Ben to bay "against a tree" on the top of the bank on the other side of the river from the ridge (227).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-12 07:32
"Thirteen miles below" Major de Spain's hunting camp in Go Down, Moses is a camp where a company of loggers are working and living (224). This camp is merely mentioned, but that distance makes this one of the very few locations in the southwestern quadrant of Yoknapatawpha.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-12 07:12
"Hoke's" is a small settlement built at the point where the logging train through the big woods connects to the "main line" carrying trains to Memphis (218). For most of the novel, Hoke's consists of a sawmill and commissary plus two stores and a loading-chute. When Ike returns to it at the end of "The Bear," however, after de Spain has sold the timber rights to the woods, it has grown dramatically: "a new planing-mill . . . and what looked like miles and miles of stacked steel rails . . .
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-12 07:08
"Hoke's" is first described in "Lion" as "the little town on the edge of Major de Spain's preserve" (185), though "town" seems like an overstatement when Quentin later says "Hoke's was just a sawmill and a few stores" (188). Its population is probably mostly male, and its economy based entirely on logging. It is where the temporary logging train that runs through the woods intersects the main railroad that runs to Memphis.
